Elon Musk's next mission: internet satellites | The Wall Street Journal "Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk shook up the automotive and aerospace industries with electric cars and cheap rockets. Now, he is focused on satellites, looking at ways to make smaller, less-expensive models that can deliver Internet access across the globe, according to people…

Good news for London commuters this morning as Virgin Media has announced it has installed wifi in its 150th London Underground station. The news comes as Wimbledon, Richmond, Morden, East Ham, Barking and Upminster are all brought online, providing travellers with blessed relief from the horror or having to stare vacantly at other people. Apparently…

Technology has really changed how people watch television. About a fifth of all TV viewing is now time-shifted – either from the DVR or via video-on-demand, Virgin Media found in a study based on data from more than 2.3 million set-top boxes. And, according to the research, almost half (43 per cent) of people mostly…

UK web users must really like their porn. Either that, or they just don't like the government telling them what they can and cannot look at online. A new report from Ofcom shows that broadband customers in the UK are overwhelmingly choosing not to use parental-control systems foisted on ISPs by the government - with…

Kindle Fire and Virgin Media users have reasons to smile this afternoon: Virgin has just launched its TV app on Amazon's app store, making it available on most Kindle Fire devices. The app is analogous to Sky Go - offering 91 live TV channel streams and over on-demand content from most major providers. Virgin is…

Not all of its customers might agree, but Virgin Media has been rated the UK's best ISP by streaming service Netflix. Virgin Media tops the current list on the official Netflix blog with an average speed of 3.30Mbps, with BT in second place at 2.96Mbps. Sky is in third on 2.74Mbps, then EE on 2.62Mbps…

In what many broadband customers in the UK would consider a case of the pot calling the kettle black, Virgin Media boss Tom Mockridge has criticised BSkyB by claiming that its broadband service is lousy. And to add further insult,…

Virgin Media subscribers will continue to have access to Sky's entertainment, sport and movie channels – including their HD variants – for at least five more years after the companies signed a new deal. According to The Next Web, the…

Good news for consumers this morning as Virgin Media have announced plans to boost broadband speeds for their top tier package up to 152Mb – twice as fast as BT's current speediest package. It turns out that Virgin weren't just…

It may have been hyped in the media as the UK antidote to Black Friday, but yesterday’s Cyber Monday was not the day when most Brits bought their Xmas gifts online. At least that’s according to a study of 2,000…